Mindfulness For Prolonged Grief

Author : Sameet M. Kumar
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608827510

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Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief by Sameet M. Kumar Pdf

If you have lost a loved one suddenly or traumatically, have experienced extreme trauma yourself, or simply cannot process the death of someone dear to you, the pain can be overwhelming. For most people, grief resolves on its own, given time; but for many others, grief can lead to serious psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, anger, and an intense, inconsolable yearning for the deceased. Prolonged or complicated grief is a serious psychological condition that can leave you feeling dazed, stunned, or in shock for months or even years after your loss. Your sorrow does not diminish with time. In fact, it may even increase. No matter how much support you receive from family and friends, you simply cannot “get over it.” However, there are steps you can take to begin healing. Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief offers you real tools for overcoming the painful symptoms of prolonged grief. In the book, you will learn to relieve your pain by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, improving the quality of your sleep, and reconnecting with your life’s goals. In addition, you will discover how mindfulness exercises and guided meditations can help you process your grief, manage your intense emotions, and deal with loss without resorting to avoidant behaviors (such as addiction) as coping mechanisms. Loss is an extremely painful part of life, but with help you can build the resilience you need to heal, and use your grief as a powerful vehicle for growth.

Author : Sameet M. Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1461945429

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Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief by Sameet M. Kumar Pdf

For some people, grief resolves on its own; but for many others, grief can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, anger, and an intense and inconsolable yearning for the diseased. This workbook offers mindfulness exercises, guided meditations, and healthy lifestyle changes to help you process your grief, manage your intense emotions, and start to finally heal.

Author : Sameet M. Kumar
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608824250

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Grieving Mindfully by Sameet M. Kumar Pdf

Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference. By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable of transforming and healing the grief you carry and finding the spiritual and emotional resilience you need to move through this challenging time. These mindfulness practices, explained here in simple and practical language, will help you bear your time of grief. But they will do more than that, too. They will guide you to a life more fully lived, with more meaning. These simple practices will help you experience what richness comes from asking deeper questions about loss and about life.

Author : Heather Stang
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781782497820

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Mindfulness and Grief by Heather Stang Pdf

Without proper support, navigating the icy waters of grief may feel impossible. The grieving person may feel spiritually bankrupt and often the loss is so painful that the bereaved may lose faith in what they once held dear. Mindfulness meditation can restore hope by offering a compassionate safe haven for healing and self-reflection. While nobody can predict the path of someone else's grief, this book will guide the reader forward through the grieving process with simple mindfulness-based exercises to restore mind, body and spirit. These easy-to-follow meditations will help the reader to cope with the pain of loss, and embark on a healing journey. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of grief, and the guided meditations will calm the mind and increase clarity and focus. Mindfulness and Grief will help readers to begin the process of reconstructing the shattered self that is left in the wake of any major loss.

Author : Michael Smith,Cheryl Muck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578751968

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Mindfulness in a Time of Grief by Michael Smith,Cheryl Muck Pdf

Our human experience always includes loss, and grief is the human response to loss. This book is offered to help you acknowledge, honor and process your losses. Ultimately, the ability to live in happiness and even joy is closely tied to how well we are present with and process our grief. You will find Mindfulness in a Time of Grief full of practical ideas to help you succeed in processing the small and big losses that come into your life.This easy to understand book gives you practical suggestions and ideas to help you deal with your loss and grief in a healthy way. Through specific mindfulness practices, you learn to use your breath as a tool to calm your body before stress, loss or grief overwhelm you. Mindfulness skills help you settle your mind and process the changes and losses experienced in life. Positive change skills help you learn to foster positive thinking, make healthy choices, strengthen mental health, recognize and stop unhelpful thoughts, use positive affirmations, and establish constructive habits.Included in the book are forty-six specific practice sessions designed to support your personal grief process. Each practice includes a contemplative reading, a real life action exercise and a positive affirmation to take into your daily life. In addition, breathing breaks are planned to support you as you do the work of grieving your losses.

Author : Cheryl Muck,Michael Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 0578847086

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Mindfulness In a Time of Grief by Cheryl Muck,Michael Smith Pdf

Our human experience always includes loss, and grief is the human response to loss. This book is offered to help you acknowledge, honor and process your losses. Ultimately, the ability to live in happiness and even joy is closely tied to how well we are present with and process our grief. You will find Mindfulness in a Time of Grief full of practical ideas to help you succeed in processing the small and big losses that come into your life.This easy to understand book gives you practical suggestions and ideas to help you deal with your loss and grief in a healthy way. Through specific mindfulness practices, you learn to use your breath as a tool to calm your body before stress, loss or grief overwhelm you. Mindfulness skills help you settle your mind and process the changes and losses experienced in life. Positive change skills help you learn to foster positive thinking, make healthy choices, strengthen mental health, recognize and stop unhelpful thoughts, use positive affirmations, and establish constructive habits. Included in the book are forty-six specific practice sessions designed to support your personal grief process. Each practice includes a contemplative reading, a real life action exercise and a positive affirmation to take into your daily life. In addition, breathing breaks are planned to support you as you do the work of grieving your losses.

Author : Heather Stang
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781800653498

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Living with Grief by Heather Stang Pdf

Meditation and mindful practice to restore mind, body and spirit as you deal with the pain of loss. Loss is an inevitable part of life and the experience of grief can affect everyone. While nobody can predict the path of someone else's grief, this book will guide you through the process with simple mindfulness-based exercises to restore mind, body and spirit. In Living with Grief, an updated edition of Mindfulness and Grief, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of grief, and aims to enable you to honour your loved one's legacy while continuing your own life's path. You will find out ways to cope with the pain of loss and embark on a healing journey, through breath and body exercises for feeling overwhelmed or unsteadied by grief to relaxation techniques that will help you to release tension and steady your mind. While Living with Grief is centred around the death of a loved one, the mindfulness practices in the book will also be helpful to readers experiencing other kinds of loss, such as separation, divorce, unemployment, health-related loss and relocation.

Author : Victor G. Carrión, M.D.,John Rettger, Ph.D.
Publisher : American Psychiatric Pub
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781615372126

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Applied Mindfulness by Victor G. Carrión, M.D.,John Rettger, Ph.D. Pdf

Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents starts from the premise that mental health clinicians must have their own mindfulness practice before teaching the tenets and techniques of mindfulness to others, including young people. To that end, the book offers readers clear instructions on how to first practice mindfulness in their own lives and then extend their personal practice outward to others. Once this knowledge is internalized, the clinician can focus on mindfulness in terms of its application to specific clinical diagnoses, such as anxiety and depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and substance abuse. Because many mental health professionals work in multiple settings, such as in schools, in clinics, and online, the contributors, representing a wide range of creative and authoritative voices, explain how to skillfully tailor mindfulness interventions for effective application across diverse contexts. Drs. Carrion and Rettger, as Director of the Stanford Early Life Stress and Pediatric Anxiety Program (SELSPAP) and Director of SELSPAP's Mindfulness Program, respectively, have been engaged in ongoing community-based work delivering mindfulness and yoga programming to underserved youth and their helpers. This expertise is evident in their eloquent yet down-to-earth editing.The volume offers clinicians everything they need to begin their mindfulness journey, including the following: - Introductory knowledge on how to get started with a meditation practice. Specific mindfulness scripts are provided throughout the book to foster development of the reader's own practice. In addition, there are audio practices and clear written descriptions of practices to offer support for those learning to meditate, internalize mindfulness practices, and then adapt these skills for clinical practice. - A developmental and ecological approach to implementing mindfulness. The book offers insight into integrating mindfulness across many settings, platforms, and applications, and includes chapters on mindfulness online, at home, and in school, as well as chapters on incorporating nature into mindfulness practice and the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. - Material on specific clinical populations, including immigrant youth and incarcerated youth. A special chapter is devoted to trauma-informed yoga, which has been shown to be an effective therapeutic intervention for youth who have been incarcerated.- Comprehensive information on the current state of youth mindfulness research, which prepares readers to discuss these topics knowledgeably with colleagues and patients. Like ripples in water, the benefits of mindfulness spread outward, from clinicians to patients, families, schools, and communities. Applied Mindfulness: Approaches in Mental Health for Children and Adolescents is the first step toward stress reduction, peace, and compassion for a new generation.

Author : Monique Minahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0578438402

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The Grief Practice by Monique Minahan Pdf

A book that validates the mental and physical experience of grief through stories, yoga, and mindfulness practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782402632

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Mindfulness & the Journey of Bereavement: Restoring Hope After a Death by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Bridgewater
Publisher : Leaping Hare Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781782402640

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Mindfulness & the Journey of Bereavement by Peter Bridgewater Pdf

The emotional responses to death are unpredictable and individual, with denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance all natural stages of the grief cycle. Mindfulness & The Journey of Bereavement explores the universal, lifechanging journey of grief and offers insight into how we can understand our feelings, nourish our needs, and face the future positively, with hope. Bereavement volunteer Peter Bridgewater shares therapeutic tools into how the practice of mindfulness can develop a conscious awareness of life and death. With frank personal and professional anecdotes, he helps us to navigate the trauma of loss with clarity and wisdom.

Author : Heather Stang
Publisher : CICO Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1800650191

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From Grief to Peace by Heather Stang Pdf

A guided journal with writing prompts, meditations and practices to transform the heartache and pain of grief and loss into love and resilience, the mindful way. Grief is a natural reaction to loss and the mourning process can be a difficult and stressful experience. Time alone does not heal our wounds—it is what we do with our time that matters. But in the wake of devastating loss, how and where do you begin? One way is through grief journaling which can help you record and process your experience of grief. With the support of grief and mindfulness expert Heather Stang, From Grief to Peace offers the writing space, guidance, and freedom to express your feelings without judgment. Explore your heart’s story fearlessly, transform grief roadblocks into green lights, and write a thank-you letter to your inner strength and courage. Mindful journaling prompts, tips, and practices allow you to tap into your natural resilience and find the meaning you need to thrive. In turn you will learn and grow through your grief journey.

Author : Sameet M. Kumar
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781608826957

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The Mindful Path through Worry and Rumination by Sameet M. Kumar Pdf

Do you find yourself ruminating about things you can't control? Worrying about those yet-to-complete goals and projects? What about just feeling like you're not the person you want to be? People who worry and ruminate find it difficult to stop anxiously anticipating future events and regretting or rethinking past actions. Left unchecked, this tendency can lead to mental health problems such as depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination offers powerful mindfulness strategies derived from Buddhist spiritual practices and proven psychological techniques to help you stop overthinking what you can't control-the future and the past-and learn how to find contentment in the present moment.

Author : Lora C Mercado
Publisher : Marguerite Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Healing Grief through Meditation by Lora C Mercado Pdf

Depression, anxiety and other issues are some of the most common problems that people must overcome when they are going through the stages of grief. These symptoms can last for weeks, months and even years. By practicing meditation, you can ease the emotions that are weighing you down so you can once again start living with a sense of peace. Included in this guide is an overview of meditation and how it can benefit each stage of grief. You will also discover tips and techniques to make meditation easier and more comfortable. Also included is a guided meditation to get you started in the healing process.

Author : Karla Helbert
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780857011633

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Yoga for Grief and Loss by Karla Helbert Pdf

Just as grief is an experience that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually, yoga sustains and strengthens us in all of those same areas. This book demonstrates how the principles and practices of yoga can help relieve symptoms of grief allowing those who have experienced loss to move toward wholeness, peace, and feelings of connection with loved ones who have died. Exploring the six branches of yoga, the book shows how each branch can support us through grief in different ways whether it be the self-reflection of Jnana Yoga, the spiritual devotion of Bhakti Yoga, the meditation of Raja Yoga, or the physical postures of Hatha Yoga. We are shown how to begin and sustain a personal practice, both on and off the yoga mat, which helps us to cope with and move through grief on multiple levels. Expressive and experiential exercises are included to help explore each of the branches of yoga and find ways to put the tenets of each branch into real life practice.